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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1681
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Stark nought, adj. [e.m.E. starke nought (a1543); Stark adv. 2.] Entirely ? worthless, ? unavailable. — 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 5.
When trouts and Abercorn muscles Are stark nought … It was in Januar or December
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